A 1.800-g sample of phenol (C6H5OH) was burned in a bombcalorimeter whose total heat capacity is 11.66 kJ/°C. Thetemperature of the calorimeter plus contents increasedfrom 21.36 to 26.37 °C. (a) Write a balanced chemicalequation for the bomb calorimeter reaction. (b) What isthe heat of combustion per gram of phenol? Per mole ofphenol?

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A 1.800-g sample of phenol (C6H5OH) was burned in a bomb
calorimeter whose total heat capacity is 11.66 kJ/°C. The
temperature of the calorimeter plus contents increased
from 21.36 to 26.37 °C. (a) Write a balanced chemical
equation for the bomb calorimeter reaction. (b) What is
the heat of combustion per gram of phenol? Per mole of
phenol?

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